Florida Congress Election Race 2012

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Florida's History Timeline:

1803 - The United States of America claims West Florida and its capital Pensacola as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

1813 - England is not so keen on giving up Pensacola and General Andrew Jackson arrives to drive the British out.

1818 - Jackson's actions spark the first of two skirmishes with the Seminole Indians.

1821-1823 - Jackson becomes Florida's provisional governor when the U.S. purchases Florida and its capital St. Augustine from Spain. Tallahassee becomes the new capital.

1830-1840 - Florida's first flush of settlers arrives by steamboat and the population grows from 15,000 to 34,000.

1835-1842 - Seminole Wars.

1845 - Florida becomes the 27th state with 66,500 people.

1861-1865 - Florida becomes a non-state when it secedes from the Union. Florida provisions Confederate troops with salt, beef and bacon during the Civil War.

1878 - Tourism dawns at Silver Springs when Hullam Jones glues a window to the bottom of a rowboat and invents the glass-bottom boat.

1883-85 - Henry Plant lays tracks on the West Coast, Henry Flagler on the East Coast. Along with the railroads sprout luxury hotels and a new era for Florida travel.

1887 - Eatonville becomes the first incorporated municipality in America governed by its own African-American population.

1898 - Florida prepares for the Spanish-American War with forts and army camps.

1904-1912 - Flagler rides the rails to the end of the line, extending his tracks the 156 miles from Miami to Key West.

1908 - Jacksonville becomes Florida's Hollywood, where producers make early movies - years ahead of Hollywood, actually.

1928 - Transportation makes another forward lurch with the opening of the Tamiami Trail from Tampa to Miami.

1946 - Jackie Robinson scores a homerun for his people in Daytona Beach as the first African-American to join an all-white team.

1947 - President Truman dedicates Everglades National Park.

1959 - Fidel Castro's assumption of power results in the first influx of Cuban immigrants to Florida.

1961 - Transportation looks skyward as Cape Canaveral sends its first manned vessel into space.

1971 - Walt Disney World opens outside Orlando.

1980 - Nearly 125,000 more Cuban immigrants arrive in the Mariel boatlift.

1982 - President Reagan signs the Miccosukee Constitution, making Miccosukee Indian territory independent from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

1984 - Miami debuts its $1 billion Metro rail system.

2000 - President Clinton authorizes a massive project to restore the fragile eco-system of the Everglades, which have existed and nourished life since the beginning of time in Florida.

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